Denver (November 9, 2010) – The Denver Office of Cultural Affairs (DOCA), in partnership with the Western States Arts Federation (WESTAF) and with support from University of Colorado Denver College of Arts & Media, will present the inaugural Denver Music Summit on December 9 and 10. The summit will provide metro-Denver musicians opportunities for professional growth and feature a kick-off concert to highlight and celebrate Denver’s vibrant music scene.

According to the 2017-18 Best Children’s Hospitals rankings released today by U.S. News & World Report, Children’s Colorado ranked in nine of the ten recognized specialty areas, including five in the top ten.

Ronald Sokol has been named the President-Elect of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD) for 2017. Sokol will be the third pediatrician to be president of AASLD in its 65+ year history.

Neal Halfon, MD, MPH, will deliver the John J. Conger Lectureship in Child Mental Health Policy at 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 pm, Friday, March 24, during Grand Rounds at Children’s Hospital Colorado in Mt. Oxford with a reception to follow.

​​Integrating pediatric mental health care into your primary care office can be an effective way to ensure your patients get the care they really need -- and it's easier than you think, says Dr. Jay Rabinowitz.

Dr. Federico not only speaks Spanish, she is also dedicated to helping underserved populations get access to care. She started her career torn between studying social work or medicine, and in many ways she’s managed to combine the two.

Robin Shandas, PhD, said CU Denver and the CU Anschutz Medical Campus provide students with unprecedented resources to advance human health by combining bioengineering instruction with health-oriented research and clinical opportunities.

Physicians at the University of Colorado School of Medicine on the Anschutz Medical Campus have published research that suggests a safe and lower-cost way to diagnose and treat problems in the upper gastrointestinal tract of children.

James E. Strain, MD, has been promoted to Distinguished Clinical Professor in the Department of Pediatrics. This is the highest level of a clinical faculty rank, which is awarded to an outstanding clinician, advocate, and teacher.

Collaborators on the Anschutz Medical Campus have created the Lifecourse Epidemiology of Adiposity and Diabetes (LEAD) center, where scientists will help understand the causes and identify population approaches to preventing obesity and diabetes.

Donald C. Bross, JD, PhD, professor of pediatrics in the Kempe Center for Child Abuse and Neglect, has been selected as the 2015 faculty winner of the Thomas Jefferson Award at the University of Colorado. This is one of the university’s highest awards.

Formerly called the Trivisible Room, the space on the second floor of Research Complex 2 has been renamed in honor of Richard D. Krugman, the School of Medicine’s longest-serving dean and the university’s vice chancellor for health affairs.

The National Society of Genetic Counselors recently announced this year’s NSGC Leadership Award Winners, and among the six recipients was Kami Wolfe Schneider, MS, CGC, who received the Outstanding Volunteer award.

The University of Colorado School of Medicine recently announced the first round of the enhancing education grants that the School is making with the ongoing funding support from the University of Colorado Health.

​​Dr. Bettina F. Cueno, visiting professor of pediatrics, helped author this scientific statement on the diagnosis and treatment of fetal cardiac disease, which was published in Circulation, a Journal of the American Heart Association.

David Keller, MD, joined the faculty at the University of Colorado School of Medicine as a Visiting Professor and Vice Chair for Clinical Affairs and Clinical Transformation of the Department of Pediatrics on October 1, 2013.

Jed Friedman, PhD, professor of pediatrics, biochemistry and molecular genetics, professor in reproductive sciences, has been honored by the CU Denver Postdoctoral Association with a new award for outstanding contributions in postdoctoral mentoring.

Richard D. Krugman, MD, University of Colorado vice chancellor for health affairs and dean of the School of Medicine, announced in his Jan. 13 email to campus that he has asked the university’s leadership to begin the process of hiring his successor.

​Marian Rewers, MD, MPH, PhD, professor of pediatrics and interim director of the Barbara Davis Center for Diabetes, is receiving the Mary Tyler Moore and S. Robert Levine Award for Excellence in Clinical Research.

Advocates trying to discourage early anatomical surgery for children born with atypical sex organs and genitalia applaud the SOAR Clinic at Children's Hospital Colorado, which endorses individualized treatment.

The practice plan that offers business operations and administrative support to nearly 3,000 University of Colorado School of Medicine clinical healthcare providers changed the sign on its building last week.